Michael Phillips

Like the song by The Replacements says: Here comes a regular. In the first shot of "Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets," a fascinating experiment in documentary/fiction hybrid moviemaking by the brothers...

Editor's note: "First Cow," a singular achievement from the singular American writer-director Kelly Reichardt, opened theatrically in Chicago March 13. It closed three days later, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced...

"I'm at Harvard now, and they're, uh, they're closing the campus, telling the kids not to come back after spring break." Four months ago, as the country realized its leaders...

This story contains updated material. With a cloudy reopening timeline, which goes for everyone in the film exhibition industry amid COVID-19, the nonprofit Gene Siskel Film Center laid off five...

Chicago's pop-up outdoor movie circuit expands yet again Wednesday, with the opening of "CHI-Together: Drive-In and Music at Soldier Field." To be clear, it's near, not in, the stadium, setting...

A maestro has passed, at the age of 91. For someone who lived a happily long and abundantly creative, improbably productive life, the composer Ennio Morricone has been preparing for...

I went to three different movie screenings this week, two indoors, one outside, under the moon. Here's what that was like, in a world, a summer and a psychological landscape...